Troutdale, OR Rental Property Rules: Rent Control (2026)

Oregon Senate Bill 608 (2019), codified at ORS 90.323 (week-to-week tenancies and first-year prohibition) and ORS 90.324 (calculation of the maximum allowable rent increase), is the operative rent-cap framework in Troutdale. The statute prohibits any rent increase during the first year of a tenancy and limits subsequent annual increases to the lesser of (a) 7% plus the September-to-September percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, West Region (as published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) or (b) a hard ceiling of 10%. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services publishes the maximum allowable rent increase percentage each year by September 30 for the following calendar year. For calendar year 2026, the published cap is 9.5% (7% + 2.5% West Region CPI through September 2025). The cap applies to month-to-month, fixed-term, and week-to-week tenancies and to written and oral leases. A landlord may not impose more than one rent increase in any 12-month period regardless of the cap (ORS 90.323/90.324). Two principal exemptions exist on the face of the statute: (1) ORS 90.324(2) exempts dwelling units whose first certificate of occupancy was issued less than 15 years before the date of the rent-increase notice (the '15-year new-construction exemption'), and (2) units subject to a separate regulatory agreement that limits rent under a federal, state, or local affordability program are governed by that agreement rather than the SB 608 cap. The landlord must provide at least 90 days' written notice of any rent increase under ORS 90.323(3)/90.324(4); a notice that exceeds the cap or that violates the 12-month rule is void, and the tenant may obtain damages equal to three months' rent plus actual damages and attorney fees under ORS 90.323(7) and ORS 90.375. The statewide cap fully preempts the field in Oregon under ORS 91.225, which prohibits a local government from controlling the rent charged on residential dwelling units (with limited carve-outs for property in which the local government has an interest and for voluntary incentive programs). Troutdale has not adopted any city-level rent-control ordinance and cannot, under ORS 91.225, enact one with general applicability; Troutdale operators and tenants therefore look to ORS 90.323/90.324 and the annual DAS publication for the operative cap.